Last Born In The Wilderness
Patrick Farnsworth
A podcast about transitions, death, the ruptures of life in between.
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Dec 22, 2025 • 1h 5min
397 / Digital Settler Colonialism / Omar Zahzah
Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press.
// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/omar-zahzah
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Dec 19, 2025 • 11min
Preview / Digital Settler Colonialism / Omar Zahzah
Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press.
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Dec 9, 2025 • 1h 11min
396 / Long Covid Is Changing an Entire Generation / Eli Cahan
Investigative journalist and pediatrician Eli Cahan joined me to discuss the magnitude of the long Covid crisis in the youth population of the United States, addressed in his October Rolling Stone piece, Long Covid Is Real—And It’s Changing an Entire Generation.
Eli Cahan takes the time to speak to his dual position as a pediatrician and investigative journalist and how they intersect. He takes us through the struggles many families are dealing with, the human-level hardships that are unique to each child and their families, indicative of a much wider and pervasive long Covid crisis. This kind of journalism is as humanizing as it is deeply informed—a call to action against a generational injustice that will continue to cascade unless we improve the conditions not just for long Covid sufferers, but for everyone. We are all vulnerable to this pandemic.
// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/eli-cahan
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Dec 1, 2025 • 6min
Preview / Long Covid Is Changing an Entire Generation / Eli Cahan
Investigative journalist and pediatrician Eli Cahan joined me to discuss the magnitude of the long Covid crisis in the youth population of the United States, addressed in his October Rolling Stone piece, Long Covid Is Real—And It’s Changing an Entire Generation.
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Dec 1, 2025 • 1h 9min
395 / Wakara’s America / Max Perry Mueller
Max Perry Mueller, professor of religious studies and author, joined me in this sweeping interview to discuss his new book, Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, published by Basic Books.
Our discussion covers some of the thematic sweeps and details of Mueller’s incredibly well-written and rich history of the American West and one of its central, oft-forgotten, and overlooked founders, Wakara—intersecting with indigenous ecological knowledge and management systems, settler-colonialism, and Mormonism.
// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/max-perry-mueller
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Nov 26, 2025 • 10min
Preview / Wakara's America / Max Perry Mueller
Max Perry Mueller, professor of religious studies and author, joined me in this sweeping interview to discuss his new book, Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, published by Basic Books.
Our discussion covers some of the thematic sweeps and details of Mueller’s incredibly well-written and rich history of the American West and one of its central, oft-forgotten, and overlooked founders, Wakara, intersecting with ecological knowledge and management systems, settler-colonialism, and Mormonism.
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Nov 7, 2025 • 8min
Preview / You will be disappointed, and that's okay.
I speak to the enormously successful campaign of Zorhan Mamdani, his charisma, the very practical policy goals set by his run for mayor of New York City, and how you will be disappointed.
"I just want to be really transparent and honest about the fact that I, too, feel many of the feelings that people have about this, while also having this other part of myself, which I don't want to describe as pessimistic as much as just realistic."
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Nov 1, 2025 • 1h 21min
394 / Luigi / John H. Richardson
Author and journalist John H. Richardson joins me to ruminate on his new book, Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, published by Simon & Schuster. In line with the book’s title, we discuss the making and the meaning of Luigi Mangione, currently on trial for the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In his full book treatment of the case, Richardson follows the breadcrumbs Mangione left behind, painting a vivid picture of his influences and thinking, situating this violent act within our revolutionary moment.
// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/john-richardson-2
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Oct 27, 2025 • 6min
Preview / Luigi / John H. Richardson
Author and journalist John H. Richardson joins me to ruminate on his new book, Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, published by Simon & Schuster.
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Oct 5, 2025 • 1h 4min
393 / Political Violence / Shane Burley
Journalist and author Shane Burley joined me to discuss the specter of political violence in the United States, remarking on the recent assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and the fallout of that event.
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